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Divide and Conquer
One of the key throughlines from my time in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, was the theme of division. Division was an evil and malicious tool that supported minority white rule both before and during apartheid. Division was seen everywhere – tribal divisions, race-based divisions, urban vs. rural divisions, economic divisions, educational divisions, access
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What’s Obvious To You About Your Work As Community College Faculty, But Not To The Public?
I was reading The Chronicle of Higher Education and found this article fascinating. Someone on Twitter asked professors to answer this question: “What’s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?” Scroll through all the answers in the article, and you’ll find some jewels that apply to us as
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Listening Matters
You know how folks are always offering advice? In a recent edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the advice from David D. Perlmutter includes “listen as well as you speak”. I tend to believe I’m a pretty good speaker. But that advice in The Chronicle caused me to think about whether I’m a good
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Welcome to my AVP blog
Communicate, communicate, communicate One of the things we hear too often at ACC is that we don’t communicate well. In my own small way, I’m hoping to make a dent in our tangled lines of communication by establishing this blog page. My goal is to use this blog as a way to highlight the things